Incremental value of cardiac imaging in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain and without ST-segment elevation: A multicenter study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 129-136

  Kaul, Sanjiv ^a,h   Senior, Roxy ^b   Firschke, Christian ^c   Wang, Xin Qun ^a   Lindner, Jonathan ^a   Villanueva, Flordeliza S ^e   Firozan, Soroosh ^d   Kontos, Michael C ^f   Taylor, Allen ^g   Nixon, Ian J ^f   Watson, Denny D ^a   Harrell, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Walter Reed Army Medical Center   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 3142582424     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2003.12.041     Document Type: Article

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